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- ...s)|stress]] (''rebel'', out of [[context]], could be the [[verb]] or the [[noun]]), and the [[Japanese language|Japanese]] [[mora (linguistics)|mora]]-base4 KB (631 words) - 15:04, 9 March 2024
- ...shuushin suru'' 'retire [to bed]' uses the Chinese reading ''SHIN'' in the noun ''shuushin'' 'retiring', but in the more common verb 寝る ''neru'' 'to li9 KB (1,367 words) - 10:12, 28 February 2024
- The normal way to form a plural noun in '''English''' is to add the [[suffix]] -'''s''', which changes into -''' ...are not included if their plural endings are the same as that of the root noun: for example the plural of '''snôwmán''' is '''snôwmén'''.10 KB (1,559 words) - 00:45, 9 February 2024
- ...e initial auxiliary [[verb]] of the main [[clause]] ahead of the subject [[noun phrase]].5 KB (688 words) - 08:14, 18 October 2013
- ...rate variants. For example, in English, sentences often follow the "N-VP" (noun - verb phrase) pattern, but some knowledge of the English language is requi5 KB (628 words) - 15:27, 25 April 2008
- ''noun'' '''rêlay cf. ''verb'' '''próphesŷ''': ''noun'' '''próphecỳ14 KB (2,212 words) - 12:26, 5 July 2017
- '''tâkeover''' ''noun'' '''thánkyoû''' ''noun and adjective'': '''a thánkyou nôte'''; compare: '''wê thánk yoû for t14 KB (2,152 words) - 12:25, 24 July 2017
- ...(abridged): "Think of C. Caesar in that appalling Gallic War writing about noun declensions as weapons flew past." ''Contra'': O.A.W. Dilke, "The Literary4 KB (589 words) - 08:30, 26 September 2007
- ''Ulaid'' is a plural noun, indicating an [[ethnonym]] rather than a geographic term. The Ulaid are pr5 KB (731 words) - 21:32, 6 February 2010
- ...Cole's slightly Anglicized usage in this paper adopting Shi'ite both as a noun and an adjective for simplicity's sake. Note that Nakash also modifies his4 KB (625 words) - 10:56, 15 April 2024
- '''dêfect''' ''imperfection (noun) '''détail''' ''BrE noun16 KB (2,467 words) - 14:34, 26 July 2017
- A '''mine''' (noun) is a place where natural resources are extracted from the ground. To mine5 KB (753 words) - 11:59, 24 January 2023
- ...kontrollér'' is the imperative form of "to control", ''kontroller'' is the noun "controls". The simple past of the (disused) verb ''å fare'', "to travel", ...ed, syllable. Examples include ''café'' ("café") and ''resumé'' ("resumé", noun). There are two pairs of [[homograph]]s that are differentiated only by the16 KB (2,527 words) - 16:33, 14 February 2014
- ...possessives, interrogatives, and demonstratives. Dutch no longer indicates noun cases, though a good number of petrified expressions still appear in dative ...adjectives now take the ending ''-e'' except for those modifying a neuter noun not preceded by a definite article or by another definite premodifier (demo10 KB (1,485 words) - 20:37, 15 March 2017
- ...Scholten and Vainikka have argued that only lexical categories (e.g. the [[noun phrase]]) are drawn from the L1, and that functional categories (e.g. the [6 KB (786 words) - 11:18, 2 August 2016
- ...t many classes of nouns have a gender that is mechanically associated with noun-forming suffixes, e.g. ''das Mädchen'' 'the girl' is neuter because all no Common noun suffixes with fixed gender:15 KB (2,171 words) - 12:58, 18 February 2024
- '''lîcence''' BrE noun only = '''lîcense''' '''lîve''' ''adjective'', cf. '''lîfe''' ''noun16 KB (2,462 words) - 13:05, 5 July 2017
- '''abûse''' noun, -ss; verb, -z '''áccess''' ''noun'' *áxéss, cf. '''áxis''' centre ([[minimal pair]]), '''áxes''' ''axe''25 KB (3,975 words) - 21:48, 24 May 2017
- * {{search link|"thieve"|thieve|ns0|ns14|ns100}} (thief [noun], thieve [verb])11 KB (1,470 words) - 10:34, 17 September 2016
- ...owup||ns0|ns14|ns100}} (follow up [verb], follow-up [adjective], followup [noun])11 KB (1,389 words) - 19:23, 8 February 2012
- ...tive]] or [[Ergative-absolutive language|ergative]]. In a language with [[noun case|case]]s, the classification depends on whether the subject of an intra6 KB (872 words) - 14:18, 18 February 2024
- '''mâde-up''' adjective before noun '''mándâte''' ''noun''; mandâte, ''verb''21 KB (3,209 words) - 08:09, 5 September 2017
- ...] (漢字 ''[[kanji]]'') are used for the most meaningful words such as most [[noun]]s and [[verb]]s; these take some time to learn. Two further ''[[kana]]'' s6 KB (925 words) - 00:05, 12 January 2013
- ...d the second two just adjectives, and they generally behave like any other noun or adjective behaves. ...rphemes even in the absence of any allomorphy. For example, if the plural noun ''dogs'' is analyzed as a root ''dog'' followed by a plural morpheme ''-s''21 KB (3,122 words) - 04:17, 15 August 2010
- ''BrE verb'' '''práctíse''' = ''noun, AmE verb'' '''práctíce either syllable stressed ''noun = verb'' '''fînánce36 KB (5,897 words) - 19:42, 22 August 2017
- '''bít''', past tense of '''bîte''', as well as a noun meaning ''piece'' '''breâkdown''' ''noun'' cf. '''breâk dòwn''' ''verb''20 KB (3,035 words) - 12:34, 27 July 2017
- '''càr-lôad''' ''noun'' '''clámpdown''' ''noun'' one word32 KB (4,846 words) - 14:57, 17 August 2017
- '''wrêath''' ''noun'' unvoiced '''th''' as in '''bréath''', different vowel sound '''wróngdoing''' ''noun'' one word, *róngdûing13 KB (1,863 words) - 22:58, 10 August 2017
- The word ''secret'' in the title is first understood by the reader to be a noun rather than an adjective—at one point the cool, distant Christopher tries6 KB (1,036 words) - 18:34, 6 March 2016
- '''énvelôpe''' ''noun'' - some say ón- '''éxcërpt''' ''noun'', '''excërpt''' ''verb13 KB (1,982 words) - 15:39, 24 June 2017
- cf. verbs in -'''the''': ''noun'' '''th''' unvoiced, ''verb'' '''th''' voiced: '''mòuth7 KB (1,169 words) - 20:56, 11 May 2017
- '''ópt-òut''' ''noun'' hyphenated7 KB (1,129 words) - 21:26, 26 June 2017
- '''sáy-sô''' ''noun'' one word '''sërve''' cf. '''sürvèy''' ''noun'', *sërvây; '''survèy''' ''verb28 KB (4,274 words) - 09:25, 18 July 2017
- '''ea''' is used for both sounds: '''bréath''' ''noun'', '''brêathe''' ''verb'', '''lêap''' ''present'', '''léapt''' ''past'', ...hymes with these, as does the metal '''léad''', while '''lêad''' is also a noun meaning "opening paragraph", and this usage has the alternative spelling ''15 KB (2,383 words) - 14:30, 13 January 2017
- ...es such as ''don't lose your bottle'' and ''don't bottle out''. Used as a noun, it may mean a person's courage or nerve, as in ''Have you the bottle to do7 KB (1,143 words) - 11:52, 22 January 2021
- ...''pédal''' ''bicycle'' = '''péddle''' ''sell'', '''líttle''' (adjective or noun), '''befúddle''' (verb), '''óbstacle, bàrnacle''', which many speakers p ..., érrant, mílitant, élephant, élegant, árrogant, ascéndant, depéndant''' ''noun'' (cf. '''depéndent''' ''adjective''), '''árrant, érrant''', and '''cú15 KB (2,623 words) - 12:05, 10 August 2017
- ...práctíse''' (which is spelt '''práctice''' in British English when it is a noun, with the same pronunciation).8 KB (1,447 words) - 09:55, 8 August 2016
- ...e, regréssíve, inclûsíve''' and nouns: '''môtíve, explêtíve, dîgestíve''' (noun or adjective) while verbs have a stressed -'''îve''': '''contrîve, arrîv8 KB (1,392 words) - 09:48, 13 August 2016
- ...'''). The sound is always yû- initially: '''ûse''' (verb, voiced '''s'''; noun, unvoiced '''s'''), '''ûsual, Ûrals, ûríne'''.9 KB (1,523 words) - 17:07, 15 February 2016
- ...Romance languages. It is a moderately [[Inflection|inflected]] language. [[Noun]]s and most pronouns are inflected for [[grammatical number|number]] (singu ...in or Greek roots. There are often pairs of words, one form being popular (noun) and the other one savant (adjective), both originating from Latin. Example20 KB (2,914 words) - 19:11, 7 September 2023
- '''neŵs''' -z, singular noun9 KB (1,447 words) - 19:45, 23 June 2017
- ...ugh the context and structural relations. This is for example that every [[noun]] can be used as a [[subject]], [[object]] or [[indirect object]], but with ...re structural elements which are necessary to built up a sentence like the noun phrase and the verb phrase but looking at a deeper level the structural ele25 KB (3,966 words) - 13:48, 18 February 2024
- Modifiers normally come before the [[noun]] in Chinese, but follow the noun in vernacular Vietnamese. Chinese texts published in Vietnam often included21 KB (3,143 words) - 10:07, 28 February 2024
- ...min Franklin, in 1747, as a verb, and subsequently by him as adjective and noun: ...al senses ‘to load’ and ‘a load’): from Old French charger (verb), charge (noun), from late Latin carricare, carcare ‘to load,’ from Latin carrus ‘wh21 KB (3,138 words) - 05:36, 6 March 2024
- ...uctural storage denotes the stacking of predicted elements to come. When a noun is perceived, a verb is expected in order to form a complete clause. In a m10 KB (1,460 words) - 20:43, 11 February 2010
- ...the notion of a prototype is applied to lexical categories other than the noun. Verbs, for example, seem to defy a clear prototype: [to run] is hard to sp11 KB (1,747 words) - 00:06, 8 March 2024
- |charge (noun, law) |dab (noun), dab hand61 KB (9,656 words) - 09:17, 2 March 2024
- ...looking at a sentence such as "Out damn spot!" and noting that "spot" is a noun and the sentence is an imperative). [[User:Michael Scott Cuthbert|Michael S12 KB (2,003 words) - 17:48, 16 June 2022
- ...itical regime, is generally known as [[capitalism]]. It is also used as a noun to refer to an institution that facilitates such transactions, and as a ver14 KB (2,087 words) - 20:01, 7 March 2024
- ...and as a noun. As a verb it means revealing an action or activity. As a noun it is used as a label for the device that allows this action to come about.32 KB (5,603 words) - 21:24, 4 February 2012